National President, CFAN, Comrade Adeola Adegoke
National President,Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria (CFAN), Comrade Adeola Adegoke has mapped out strategies for Nigeria to overtake Ivory Coast and Ghana before 2026.
In statement made available to Pillar Today on Sunday, Adegoke said, all the small cocoa farmers need to do is to go into partnership and be supported by the state governments producing cocoa.
“if we small holder cocoa farmers can partner and be supported by cocoa producing state governments to irrigate our cocoa farms all year round in all the cocoa producing states in Nigeria; honestly Nigeria vision of doubling whatever premium cocoa beans Ivory Coast and Ghana are jointly producing achievable before 2026” , Adegoke said.
He pointed out that Nigeria is endowed with land, youth population, research resources, good soil, varieties, aroma, capacity and private sector player’s resilience, hence putting all these together Nigeria can be number one in the World in Cocoa production in within two years.
CFAN President declared, “may nigeria dreams of becoming again the #highest cocoa producer amongst cocoa origin countries be possible before 2026”.
